Infographics and visualizations of
data have become essential for journalism with the emergence of digital media, where
large volumes of data need to be interpreted and communicated simply to the
audience. To explore the potential of online news, more and more journalists
and professionals of the area are willing to learn how to build their own
interactive graphics and illustrate their stories, a task previously restricted
to designers. The tools mentioned on the previous post are a great resource for
professionals who don’t know how to work on InDesign and Illustrator, which are
usually used by designers. It doesn’t matter how you will display data, but the
storytelling has to be very clear. The tools mentioned previously were great
examples (Infogr.am, Easel.ly, Tableau, Timeline and Mapbox) and they help
professionals to do that.
As I designer, I got to design many
infographics, but there is a specific one I have designed that serves as a good
example of how “boring” data can look fun. Once I designed an infographic for a
Fortune 500 software company that builds mainframes for companies such as IBM.
They had just launched a security software for mainframes and they wanted to
create an infographic saying information about data loss and hacking that
happens in many business because companies don’t protect their mainframe. Ok,
you probably got lost on the first sentence, right? Anyways, I was assigned to
design this infographic that displayed stats about the topic to help selling
the software. Check it out below.
It doesn’t sound that boring,
right?
After the success of the
infographic, the company asked me to create an animated video of that
infographic, which can be watched here.
Good read, thanks for sharing.
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